CURTIS
Thomas Curtis
The immigrant ancestor of the CURTIS family is Thomas Curtis. He came to
Virginia in 1621 aboard the Flying Harte, which sailed from the Port of
London. The Muster of Thomas Gookines, recorded in Virginia, lists him
in 1624 as being 24 years old, so he must have been born around 1600.
Children: Robert (and possibly others, see below re: manuscript)
See the website at >A Curtis Family of York and Warwick County
My information about a manuscript comes from an article I understand was
printed in the VIRGINIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY, VOLUME 14. I
don't know what date this was printed, but I am told that on page 92 it
says:
CURTIS FAMILY
Recently I have been interested in tracing the family of Col.
Rice Curtis, Burgess for Spotsylvania county, during the XXXII and
XXXIII Assemblies and possibly the XXXIV.
I read in the "Va. Mag. of Hist. and Biog.," Vols. V, p. 344 and
XIII, 59-62, the notice of Maj. Thomas Curtis, the emigrant, and
therefore send you some notes I took about thirty years ago.
Col. Robert Curtis, of Gloucester County, Va., who died some
sixty-five years ago, had a MS, giving his direct descent from Maj.
Curtis. Col. Curtis's brother-in-law, the late Maj. John Henry
Fitzhugh, of Austin, Texas, had a copy of this MS. The time I saw it,
it was mutilated and so badly damaged by water that only the first page
could be deciphered.
The paper showed that Major Thomas Curtis had five sons and two
daughters as follows: Children of Maj. Thomas Curtis, of Gloucester
county, Va., and Avarilla his wife.
1. _____ Curtis who m___ _____; 2. Giles Curtis who married Mary
_____; 3. Charles Curtis who married R_____; 4. James Curtis who married
Eliz_____; 5. _____ Curtis who married M_____; 6. Avarilla Curtis who
married Ro_____ Bri_____; 7 Sarah Curtis who married 1st _____, and who
married 2nd Richard Perr_____.
Giles(2), Charles(2) and James(2) moved to Middlesex county.
Giles(2) Curtis had sons, Rice(3) and James(3) and a daughter Jane(3).
Charles(2) had a son James(3) and a daughter Avarilla(3). James(2) had
sons, Thomas(3) and James(3) and a daughter Agatha(3).
I could make nothing more of this paper, it was so faded and
blotted by water stains. Major Fitzhugh, who was born and raised in
Middlesex County, Va., told me that he had made this copy of Col.
Curtis' MS when he (Fitzhugh) was a young man and did not remember its
contents.
W.W. Fontaine,
Galveston, Texas
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